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Languages in Contrast

Volume 16, Issue 2 (2016)

2016. iii, 122 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 16 September 2016

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.16.2

Table of Contents

Editor’s note
Editors’ note Hilde Hasselgård and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling	167
Articles
An acoustic analysis of flaps in American English and Japanese: Occlusion duration and devoicing Sosei Aniya	168–190
Shaping the glo/cal in Greek–English tourism advertising: A critical cosmopolitan perspective Stavroula Kefala and Maria Sidiropoulou	191–212
Proposals in meeting minutes: An English-Spanish corpus-based study Rosa Rabadán	213–238
Adverbs of certainty in a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective: English-Polish Agata Rozumko	239–263
Discourse connectives across languages: Factors influencing their explicit or implicit translation Sandrine Zufferey	264–279
Reviews
Review of van Dijk (2014): Discourse and Knowledge: A Sociocognitive Approach Reviewed by Rebekah Wegener	280–284
Review of Zhang (2014): Sadness Expressions in English and Chinese: Corpus Linguistic Contrastive Semantic Analysis Reviewed by Hai Xu and Ziyue Chen	285–288

Subjects and metadata

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General